Twitter has become the official spokesperson for all the characters in the IPL saga. It all started with Lalit Modi’s tweet about the shareholding pattern of the Kochi franchisee alleging that former Union Minister of State for Home Shashi Tharoor had a stake in the Kochi franchisee through his close friend and associate Sunanda Pushkar. This lead to an uproar in Parliament with the opposition demanding Tharoor’s head. A defiant Tharoor who claimed he was innocent and there was no need for his resignation was eventually forced to resign by the Prime Minister Dr Manmahon Singh after the Congress Core Group gave him the thumbs down.
Almost a forthnight later into the controversy as allegations of match fixing, match and performance outcome fixing, money laundering, fraud, cheating, bribery and what not continue to fly fast and free, Twitter continues to be the official media for the parties concerned.
On Saturday Shashi Tharoor broke his silence in the virtual world when the tweeted that he would feel his resignation was worth it if the truth came out. This was followed by tweets by other personalities like Shah Rukh Khan, Shilpa Shetty and others.
Here’s a list of all the Tweets courtesy Times of India:
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who is under intense pressure to resign from his post after I-T officials began probing IPL finances, on Saturday put out his message on Twitter saying he won’t resign.
Modi said, “People pressurising me to resign – I can tell you will not happen. Let them remove me then.”
“I am not the type to quit. Have faith. Did not create this to just walk away because xyz says what they feel like,” Modi declared.
“What we have done has been there for all of you to see for the past four years. No one can take that away,” he added on Twitter.
“Media is putting stories without verification goes to show how media can misuse there power. Don’t get influenced by all these baseless stories,” he wrote.
“Truth will prevail soon. Trial by media and no chance to present the facts is like the wild west. Wait and the facts will be delivered,” he said.
Tweeting about the IPL controversy, Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan, co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders wrote, “IPL controversy: fast, furious & too much noise. Like the T20 itself. Hope it gets resolved as fast too for our friend Lalit & franchises.”
“Had a great time. Could not stay back as had a shoot in the morning. All of us smiled through a tinge of sadness,” Shah Rukh added.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Vijay Mallya tweeted that despite media bashing it was heart warming to witness applause by owners/ players for Lalit Modi at the awards for the fine job he has done.
“It was so nice to see Lalit smile despite all hell breaking loose in the media. You have to give it to him for making IPL what it is “, actress Preity Zinta, co-promoter of Kings XI Punjab, posted in her tweets.
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty of Rajasthan Royals said she supported full and fair investigations.
“Full and fair investigation of IPL will compel loud mouths to shut up by realizing the true value of sixth largest sporting event in world”, Shilpa said in her tweets.